The UvA in Amsterdam

Museums and Special Collections

The University has a large number of collections of rare books, archives, manuscripts and historical artifacts. Some of these collections are on display at the following museums:

Allard Pierson Museum

The Allard Pierson Museum
has a wide collection of antiquities from the ancient civilisations of ancient
Egypt, the Near East, the Greek World, Etruria and the Roman Empire.

The Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam

The
Special
Collections of the University of Amsterdam has an extensive collection of
early printed books, modern special editions, manuscripts, maps and visual
material such as prints, posters and photographs. There are wide-ranging
collections in the fields of book history, Hebrew and Jewish studies,
Protestantism, medicine and zoology.

University History Collection

The
University
History Collection contains objects from the fields of art and science,
historical documentation and archives from the Athenaeum Illustre and the
University of Amsterdam, and historical records of student life going back to
the founding of the UvA in 1632 right up to the present. In addition, the
curator is the contact person for the university's faculty collections.

Computer Museum

The Computer Museum
has a unique collection of historical computers and calculators.

Museum Vrolik

Museum
Vrolik has a collection of more than ten thousand anatomical and
embryological specimens, human and animal skeletons and skulls, and anatomical
models and reconstruction.